Fromage

An interesting episode, though not as good as the previous one. I missed Jack whining to get to the Chesapeake Ripper, but it was well compensated with a thrilling story and a nice duel.

Franklyn who is obsessed by Dr. Lector suspects his friend for the recent murder discovered by Jack and Co. Whereas, Will's condition is deteriorating day by day. As expected sparks of love are kindled between Graham and Bloom.

Graham is now hearing animals whale and scream. With every case he takes up his condition is worsening day by day. On the other hand, Hannibal finds himself frustrated by a patient of his who is obsessing over him. The story leads up to a gripping climax, likes of which were yet to be seen in the series, especially Dr. Lector in action. The psychopath killer featured in this episode was more of a scientific one than a philosophical one. Also it's strange to see someone smart enough as Dr. Lector. Apart from the awesome sound and music, the cinematography was likely the best out of the 8 episodes.

Direction: Nice.

Story/Screenplay: Strong.

Acting: Mads was great, so were Dancy and Anderson. Caroline Dhavernas and Demore Barnes were fine too.

Music: Awesome.

Overall a nice action packed episode with some good cinematography and sound and an unfinished dinner. Dr. Lector won't like that, will he!?

More action than previous, nice fight sequence. At the end, the song Hannibal begins to play is the first of the Goldberg Variations (Bach).

This is notable because the best part of Ridley Scott's film of "Hannibal" (which was pretty awful) was the opening sequence of surveillance tape of Hannibal set to the Goldberg Variations. Boom.

Apparently I have to throw in a few more lines here so I will just note how weird an assertion it is that this takes place in the same universe as the other Bryan Fuller TV shows.

First of all, the piemaker would make some seriously Titus Andronicus pies here; second of all, he could just wake someone up and they'd say Hannibal! Although if that means we will get a Jewel Staite (Wonderfalls) sighting then I'm in.

Fromage is another strong Lecter focussed episode. Certain aspects of the story were set up nicely in Sorbet for the killer-of-the-week aspect of the plot. What it does well is develop Lecter's character through his friendship needs and choices. The reflective scenes with Dr Du Maurier compliment what happens quite well.

The story also functions as a lead-in to some effective moments of horror suspense and a big action climax. As you can imagine the filmmakers do great work in these scenes. One set in a creepy basement is quite spine-tingling. Additionally there are several bits that put you on edge such as the moment Will listens through a wall for a sound and pretty much every scene involving the character Tobias.

Will's mental deterioration continues to be effectively portrayed in multiple scenes. Hugh Dancy is as convincing as ever in these moments.

For me it is an 8.5/10, but I round upwards.

Of course, many things are not realistic, but playing the vocal chords was a key element of the plot and theme of this show. How many of you screamed at the TV that those are not the vocal chords?!

For me, the series has been getting boring. I am curious when the investigators will figure out what Hannibal is doing.

I was disappointed when they explicitly showed what Hannibal was doing. Is it not better to slowly raise suspicions and let the viewer figure it out?

For me, this is the last straw. I will skip ahead to see when they learn about Hannibal. I don't know how they could string this out for three seasons. (A bit like The Blacklist playing out the Keen secret for far too long.)

Once qgain an amazing episode where Hannibal gets all the good scenes and moments! This was the first time where both the murderes and the murderer, was memorable! Usually the murders in the show are, due to their graphic nature more memorable than the murderer... with a few exceptions however, such as this episode!

This episode also shows how Will is slowly loosing his grasp on reality, and begins to hallucinate! Its this mental decline that will olay a major role on this last part of the season!

The confrontation in the end was great, giving us some actual action and intensity!

Hannibal once again shows how intelligent he is and what strings to play!